Key Tricks to Keep Your Business Productive During Vacation

Summer and Year-End are always a slow time for business and many people take off from work. It creates more problem for small business owners since they have a small team and they primarily rely on people support to move their business ahead. It’s a great challenge to manage a lot of things. For them, it’s like moving ahead with a handicapped leg.

So, let’s look at some ideas that you can use to overcome these obstacles / challenges during these summer.

Biggest challenge is working around other people’s vacation schedules to get things done

Work with web designer for improvement and keep update the contents

Need to be very persistent and methodical in following up with people in order to keep projects moving along and meet deadlines

Keeping the blog alive during this summer

Adding a podcast features or add more podcasts on the site

Incorporating RSS or widget capability to your website

Summer is a great time for innovation due to the larger blocks of uninterrupted time!

You can also do some marketing activities since it will give some leads once you end the summer

Plan ahead for the coming months

Summer is a great time to network – you can talk to others about how they are incorporating new technologies

Summer is a great time to attend an industry trade show and see how technology advances are changing your industry

Summer is a good time to implement changes that affect limited number of individuals in your company (e.g. – a new electronic filing system for business cards that only an Administrative Assistant would use).

Hold off on implementing changes that involve training everyone in your company (e.g. – new computer system, new video e-mail software) until everyone’s back from vacation => minimizes potential confusion/disruption

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